Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Payment Rails.
Build and scale complex distributed systems that process high-volume, high-reliability payment traffic.
Drive an AI-first approach to engineering workflows.
Partner cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations.
Lead high-stakes scaling initiatives and define the technical direction for how Coinbase moves money.
Raise the engineering bar across Payment Rails and adjacent orgs by establishing paved roads, design patterns, and best practices.
Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards.

8+ years of experience in software engineering
Experience building payment systems, financial infrastructure, or high-volume transactional systems.
You've designed and built fault-tolerant, highly reliable distributed systems at scale.
Platform-builder mindset: you've led efforts to turn fragmented services and bespoke integrations into coherent, reusable platforms.
Strong operational excellence: experience owning production reliability, leading high-severity incident response, and driving systemic improvements from postmortems across multiple teams or domains.
Collaborative leadership: history of influencing across teams and organizations without direct authority.
Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots.

Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Platform, Payment Rails

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